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Who’s Who In Hardwoods – July 2025

Who’s Who In Hardwoods – July 2025 Florida-Based Company With Multifaceted Manufacturing Director And Lumber Buyer Purchases Millions Of Board Feet Ben Williams is the director of manufacturing and a lumber purchaser for the sawmill and manufacturing company Millwork 360 in Tampa, FL. The company purchases 2.75 million board feet annually in Poplar, Red and […]

Industry News – July 2025

Industry News – July 2025 Northern Hardwoods Installs New Neural Grader Thru The Fordaq Group Northern Hardwoods, based in Atlantic Mine, MI, and owned by JM Longyear, is proud to announce that its Neural Grader is now live grading its Red Oak, Hard and Soft Maple lumber. The Neural Grader scanner at Northern Hardwoods was […]

VERT, An AHEC Project In Red Oak Glulam And Climbing Plants, Installed In Germany This Summer 

VERT, An AHEC Project In Red Oak Glulam And Climbing Plants, Installed In Germany This Summer  For the 2024 London Design Festival, AHEC collaborated with Stefan Diez’s industrial design studio Diez Office and urban greening specialists OMCºC to create Vert, a first of its kind structure to address temperature and biodiversity in cities. Massive spans […]

Robinson Lumber Company: Five Generations Of Innovation Rooted In Tradition

Robinson Lumber Company may be one of the oldest family-owned businesses in Louisiana, but its leadership team is anything but stuck in the past. Now in its fifth generation of ownership, the New Orleans-based company is charting a bold course forward by investing in sustainability, automation and professional management while honoring a 132-year legacy. 132-year […]

West Coast Trends 2025 – Marketplace Conditions Vary Across West Coast Region

West Coast Trends 2025 – Marketplace Conditions Vary Across West Coast Region Throughout the West Coast, sources that were contacted at press time differed as to how their sales were doing. One source noted that not only are his sales currently down but that they are down overall from six months ago. While another source […]

Czar Floors: Crafting Excellence In Hardwood With Royal Flair

Czar Floors: Crafting Excellence In Hardwood With Royal Flair Czar Floors, based in Huntingdon Valley, PA, has firmly established itself as a premier designer and producer of hardwood floor medallions, borders, custom inlays, marble medallions, parquet flooring and herringbone patterns. Recently honored as the 2023 recipient of the National Wood Flooring Association’s (NWFA) coveted Floor […]

Piché Inc. : Custom-Building Smart Ways To Work Wood

Piché Inc. : Custom-Building Smart Ways To Work Wood What Guy Piché began in 1983, as a local maintenance shop in the small rural community of Daveluyville, QC, today stands out as a North American innovator and leader in automated wood handling equipment. Under the guidance of Guy’s son, Jean-Benoît since 2015—or just “J-B” as […]

HF Fly-In Delivers Hardwood Industry Issues To Congress In Over 100 Meetings

HF Fly-In Delivers Hardwood Industry Issues To Congress In Over 100 Meetings Photos By Scott Henrichsen Recently, over 70 members of the hardwood industry including mill and yard executives, manufacturers, exporters and association representatives were scheduled to visit Washington, DC, in order to meet with members of the Trump Administration and elected officials on Capitol […]

Getting Back To Business

Getting Back To Business I’m happy to report that another successful HMA National Conference and Expo is in the books. It was great seeing HMA members, suppliers and all industry stakeholders in Knoxville, TN. While things were certainly different this year as far as timing and venues are concerned, I’m thankful for everyone who was […]

Tax Reform Makes Progress… Slowly

Tax Reform Makes Progress… Slowly Pursuing tax policies that support hardwood business operations has long been a priority issue for the Hardwood Federation. Extending or making permanent the business-friendly tax benefits of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) has been on our radar since Donald Trump was elected President last November. The […]